Robin Duthy launched Art Market Research in 1977. As an investment analyst in the City of London, Duthy noticed that, while conventional investments were intensely studied for past performance and future potential, no systematic analysis of the markets for art, antiques and collectibles had been undertaken.

‘Alternative Investment’ Robin Duthy’s first book, published in 1978 and serialised in the Financial Times, was a ground-breaking analysis of those markets and their underlying supply and demand factors. In the following years Robin Duthy wrote regular columns in the Financial Times, The Times, Connoisseur, Investors Chronicle, focussing on price movements in the art and antiques markets.

Working with the late Sir Roy Allen at the London School of Economics, he devised a sophisticated methodology of trimming and smoothing mechanisms which made it possible to eliminate seasonal and other distortions. For the first time, using prices gathered from sale-rooms worldwide, it was possible to get a clear picture of price developments not only for sectors of the art market but also for hundreds of individual artists. Full details of the methodologies used are available to subscribers.

http://www.artmarketresearch.com

Heather Maizels - Executive Director, Barclays Private Bank

Heather Maizels sits on the Advisory Board of Barclays Private Bank having previously led the creation and growth of the UK Private Banking business. A Cambridge University Law graduate and former barrister, her financial experience was gained with investment banks advising government, corporations and institutions as well as individuals and their families.

As Barclays Wealth Director, Heather Maizels is responsible for the Client Life programme which includes Art Wealth. Art Wealth provides objective advice and management for established collectors as well as new entrants into the art market covering both the UK and international client base. Art Wealth includes the wider Arts and also Arts based philanthropy.

Heather Maizels is a member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs, committee member of the National Gallery, Patron member of Judge Business School, Cambridge University, founder Trustee of the Institute for Philanthropy and former Trustee of Oxford University Law Foundation.

Dr. Rachel Campbell completed her Ph.D. on Risk Management in International Financial Markets at Erasmus University, Rotterdam in 2001. She currently works at the University of Maastricht and at Erasmus University as an Assistant Professor of Finance. Her work has been published in a number of leading Journals, including the Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Risk, and Derivatives Weekly; and is forthcoming in The Journal of Empirical Finance, and The Journal of Alternative Investments.

Godfrey Barker was Arts Columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1986 to 1997 and has written since then for The Evening Standard.   His art market commentaries have also appeared over 25 years in The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Economist and The Fiekl in the UK, in Die Welt in Germany and in ARTNews, Art and Auction, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal in the United States.   He broadcasts for BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service and for BBC TV.

In a previous life he was a leader writer and Parliamentary sketchwriter for The Daily Telegraph for thirteen years.   He served as an advisor on the art market to seven Arts Ministers from 1982 to 1997.   

His first book, Vanity Fair: The Rich and The Price of Art is published in London by Constable this Christmas

Graham Steele has been a Sales Executive at White Cube for the past
three years. He works with 16 of the gallery's artists, including Sam
Taylor-Wood, Mona Hatoum, Sarah Morris, Raqib Shaw and Ernesto Caivano.
Previously to this, he worked at Sotheby's in Client Development for two
years in London. Graham received his BA in Art History from Georgetown
University, in Washington, DC, and his MA in Modernist Art History from
University College London.

Judith Greer established her reputation as an expert on Japanese contemporary art and culture during her thirteen years in Tokyo.  Co-author of the definitive “Tokyo City Guide” (1983), she worked as a freelance journalist, consultant and coordinator for projects including the Walker Art Center’s groundbreaking 1986 exhibition “Tokyo Form and Spirit”.  From 1986 to 1993 she worked at Tokyo’s Hara Museum of Contemporary Art where she became Director of International Programs.  A patron of numerous art institutions, she is a trustee of the Artangel, the London-based arts organization known for realizing artists’s visions through exceptional commissions in sites across the U.K.  She has given talks and participated in panels in both English and Japanese on subjects including art in public places, the role of the museum, on contemporary art collecting and the importance of both individual and corporate arts patronage.

Judith Greer and Louisa Buck’s “Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector’s Handbook” was published in 2006

Jeremy Howard is Head of Research and Exhibitions at Colnaghi, the well-known dealers in Old Master Paintings.  After fourteen years in the commercial art market, first at Christie’s and then at Colnaghi, Jeremy became a Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Buckingham, where he taught a special subject on the history of collecting and the art market. He recently returned to Colnaghi after fourteen years as an academic and has lectured and published widely on aspects of the history of collecting. More recently he curates exhibitions at Colnaghi on the theme of The Artist in Art and Landscape painting in Italy. 

David Breuer-Weil was born in London in 1965 and studied at the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Clare College Cambridge. He worked for Sotheby's for nine years, becoming a director and specialist in Impressionist and Modern Art. David later joined the private dealership of de Pury and Luxembourg Art in Geneva, where he was involved in putting together the Pisces Art Fund of Contemporary Art. He has combined his successful practise as a major contemporary painter with being an art advisor, curator and advisor to art funds and collections, including the Art Trading Fund..

Jeffrey Boloten is the Managing Director of ArtInsight Ltd, the events partner of ArtTactic, with a background as a solicitor and a collector, and a publishing career including directorships with major international publishers including Penguin Books. Following an MA in Arts Management focused on the Art Market, and posts at the Tate, as General Manager of a major Art College, and as lecturer on the art market for on a number of leading MA courses, Jeffrey Boloten joined ArtInsight in 2004. Jeffrey is currently lecturing on the ‘Art Market’ for the MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute in London.

Sandra Walters co-founded and directed one of Hong Kong's premier contemporary galleries, Alisan Fine Arts, prior to establishing her own consultancy business in 1990. Her early involvement in the Hong Kong art scene has enabled her to develop an extensive network of artists and galleries both in Asia and globally. Mrs. Walters is a frequent lecturer on art related topics and has been actively involved as a member of the Hong Kong Arts Administrators' Association, having served on the Board of Governors for two consecutive terms. She has also served on the Board of Governors for the Hong Kong Arts Centre as Deputy Chairman for four years. Mrs. Walters has served twice as a member of the panel of adjucators of the Philippe Charriol Foundation Modern Art Competition as well as a judge to select awards for the Hong Kong Artists' Guild. In 1990, she was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government for her support of the arts and cultural exchanges.